How many jump scares in movie are appropriate?

[mreid]

What??? You could see the damn zipper on the back of his suit!

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by mreid

What??? You could see the damn zipper on the back of his suit!

Not from behind the couch you can't.

[Tobra]

American Werewolf in London has a few, not too many, but a couple. Worked in a theater when it came out.

NSFW, extreme violence

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by tabs

Spielberg in JAWS did two. Once when Dreyfus was diving on the Dingy and the head came out of the hole in the boat. The second was when Roy Schieder was chumming the water and the shark comes out of the water.

The second scene didn't have the same shock impact as the first. So according to Spielberg you can do it once in a movie for maximum effect. If anybody should know, it is him.

Way back in 1975 or 1976 when Jaws came to Montgomery, AL it was shown at the grand old ornate huge downtown movie theater. I brought a date and we sat in the balcony so we could be um, close to each other. It was the big new movie and she wanted to see it. When the head rolled out of the hole in the boat I was pretty sure she was going to cut my arm off with her fingers squeezing my arm. That girl had a grip!

Jaws is not a good make-out movie even for young 20+ something couples. I learned that lesson that night. It is far better to suffer through a total chick movie and help get her in a romantic mood.

[Mark Henry]

Because I know it's all fake nothing ever made me really jump...until Aliens.
I almost pooped myself when that forker popped out.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

I hid behind the couch during most of the Creature From the Black Lagoon.

The House on Haunted Hill scared me as a kid. The Exorcist traumatized me for years.

[GH85Carrera]

I guess as a non Catholic, Exorcist just did not scare me at all. It was like a cartoon over the top, and I never believed it was real or possible in the slightest. It was like the Coyote getting flatted after falling off the cliff and just shaking to get his shape back. Or it was like the Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger or whatever the name of that silly movie was. Where Nijas or the fighters could fly, it was just too far out to get my brain into viewing involvement.

[Tobra]

I am not Catholic either and the exorcist gave me nightmares.

[cmccuist]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

The House on Haunted Hill scared me as a kid. The Exorcist traumatized me for years.

I saw The House on Haunted Hill (with Vincent Price) when I was about 11. Terrifying!! The acid bath, the creepy old lady gliding through the room, the drops of blood, and yea - Vincent Price! All in black and white making it even more scary!

The Pit and the Pendulum - another Vincent Price movie - was really scary as well.

[varmint]

The wife and kid like the Annabelle-conjuring-insidious movies. Nothing but cheap scares.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by varmint

The wife and kid like the Annabelle-conjuring-insidious movies. Nothing but cheap scares.

I was pretty ok with those movies. Yep on the cheap scares but movies had a wee bit of depth.

I am wide open to crap sci-fi and horror. Those mentioned movies were better.

One of these guys mentioned "A Serbian Film" 18 months ago, Sammy or Tabs?

I watched it.

Movie was good but it will alter you as an adult like The Exorcist can if you are a candy bone (like I was at 15)

[72doug2,2S]

I have an editors copy of the Exorcist, although I watched on tv as a kid, I still haven't watched my copy and I've had it over ten years.

Movie freaks my non-Catholic ass out.

[A930Rocket]

Linda Blair was in my home room in high school.

We didn’t think the movie was a big deal.

Originally Posted by flatbutt

The House on Haunted Hill scared me as a kid. The Exorcist traumatized me for years.